Pigment Shop / Kengo Kuma

April 30, 2016

In Tokyo, Architect Kengo Kuma was chosen to design Pigment, an art-supply shop like no other. With more than 4,200 pigments as well as 600 paintbrushes and 50 types of rare glue, this is an artist’s dream come true. None artist also come to adminre the interior by Kengo Kuma & Associates which recently won the National Stadium for the 2020 Olympic Games.

One of the aims of this project was to form a 3D curved surface in a frame of concrete, generated from computer technology. Laser-cut steel panels and thin bamboo were the materials.

– Kengo Kuma

Pigment Shop Photographs

Description by the Architects

One of the aims of this project was to form a 3D curved surface in a frame of concrete, generated from computer technology. Laser-cut steel panels and thin bamboo were the materials. They created a wave of bamboo for the shop, a purpose-built space to show and sell traditional pigment for Japanese painting, along with brushes and old inkstones.

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